India, July 3 -- Noida The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) has launched a new institutional plot scheme offering land to set up schools, colleges and universities, officials said on Wednesday.

These institutes are to be developed in Yeida area and applications for their construction can be made to the authority till 5pm, July 31, they added.

According to Yeida, the scheme that opened on Monday includes 15 institutional plots of varying sizes. Of these, 10 plots have been set aside for schools up to Class 12, located across Sectors 17, 18, 20 and 22E.

The school plots vary between 8,000 and 14,100 square metres (sqms) in size, said officials.

"Five larger plots, ranging from 27,000 to 83,000 sqms, have been r...